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D-Index
66
Citations
19360
World Ranking
1286
National Ranking
576

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Michael Bevis is affiliated with The Ohio State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on geophysics, oceanography, and atmospheric science.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics including geophysics and gravity measurements, high-pressure geophysics and materials, earthquake and tectonic studies, cryospheric studies and observations, earthquake detection and analysis, GNSS positioning and interference, and climate change and permafrost.

Frequent co-authors in their work include:

  • Shfaqat Abbas Khan
  • Jiangcun Zhou
  • Ernian Pan
  • William Colgan
  • Valentina R. Barletta

Publication venues where Michael Bevis regularly contributes are:

  • Geophysical Journal International
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Nature
  • Nature Communications
  • Remote Sensing

Selected recent papers reflect the scope and depth of their research:

  • "Months-long thousand-kilometre-scale wobbling before great subduction earthquakes" (2020, Nature)
  • "Centennial response of Greenland's three largest outlet glaciers" (2020, Nature Communications)
  • "Vertical bedrock shifts reveal summer water storage in Greenland ice sheet" (2024, Nature)
  • "Estimating Ice Discharge at Greenland's Three Largest Outlet Glaciers Using Local Bedrock Uplift" (2021, Geophysical Research Letters)
  • "A point dislocation in a layered, transversely isotropic and self-gravitating Earth - Part III: internal deformation" (2020, Geophysical Journal International)

Michael Bevis has been recognized by the American Geophysical Union as a Fellow since 2015.

Best Publications

  • GPS Meteorology: Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Water Vapor Using the Global Positioning System

    Michael Bevis;Steven Businger;Thomas A. Herring;Christian Rocken

  • GPS Meteorology: Mapping Zenith Wet Delays onto Precipitable Water

    Michael Bevis;Steven Businger;Steven Chiswell;Thomas A. Herring

  • GPS Meteorology: Direct Estimation of the Absolute Value of Precipitable Water

    Jingping Duan;Michael Bevis;Peng Fang;Yehuda Bock

  • Sensing atmospheric water vapor with the global positioning system

    Christian Rocken;Randolph Ware;Teresa Van Hove;Fredrick Solheim

  • The 2010 Mw 8.8 Maule megathrust earthquake of Central Chile, monitored by GPS.

    C. Vigny;A. Socquet;S. Peyrat;J. C. Ruegg

  • Crustal Dilatation Observed by GRACE After the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake

    Shin-Chan Han;C. K. Shum;Michael Bevis;Chen Ji

  • Geodetic observations of very rapid convergence and back-arc extension at the Tonga arc

    Michael Bevis;F. W. Taylor;B. E. Schutz;Jacques Recy

  • Computing the gravitational and magnetic anomalies due to a polygon; algorithms and Fortran subroutines

    I. J. Won;Michael Bevis

  • GPS/STORM—GPS Sensing of Atmospheric Water Vapor for Meteorology

    Christian Rocken;Teresa Van Hove;James Johnson;Fred Solheim

  • The Nazca -South America Euler vector and its rate of change

    Eric Kendrick;Michael Bevis;Robert Smalley;Benjamin Brooks

  • The Promise of GPS in Atmospheric Monitoring

    Steven Businger;Steven R. Chiswell;Michael Bevis;Jingping Duan

  • Motion and rigidity of the Pacific Plate and implications for plate boundary deformation

    J. Beavan;Paul Tregoning;M. Bevis;T Kato

  • Instantaneous geodetic positioning at medium distances with the Global Positioning System

    Yehuda Bock;Rosanne M. Nikolaidis;Paul J. de Jonge;Michael Bevis

  • Sustained mass loss of the northeast Greenland ice sheet triggered by regional warming

    Shfaqat A. Khan;Kurt H. Kjær;Michael Bevis;Jonathan L. Bamber

  • Toward understanding tectonic control on the Mw 8.8 2010 Maule Chile earthquake

    Marcelo Spegiorin Moreno;Daniel Melnick;M. Rosenau;J. Baez

  • Trajectory models and reference frames for crustal motion geodesy

    Michael Bevis;Abel Brown

  • Observed rapid bedrock uplift in Amundsen Sea Embayment promotes ice-sheet stability

    Valentina R. Barletta;Valentina R. Barletta;Michael Bevis;Benjamin E. Smith;Terry Wilson

  • Accretionary tectonics of Burma and the three-dimensional geometry of the Burma subduction zone

    James F. Ni;Marco Guzman-Speziale;Michael Bevis;William E. Holt

  • Spread of ice mass loss into northwest Greenland observed by GRACE and GPS

    Shfaqat Abbas Khan;John Wahr;Michael Bevis;Isabella Velicogna;Isabella Velicogna

  • Accelerating changes in ice mass within Greenland, and the ice sheet's sensitivity to atmospheric forcing

    Michael Bevis;Christopher Harig;Shfaqat A. Khan;Abel Brown

  • Hypocentral trend surface analysis: Probing the geometry of Benioff Zones

    Michael Bevis;Bryan L. Isacks

  • SENSING ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR WITH THE GLOBAL POSmONING SYSTEM

    Mike Bevis;Steven Businger

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert Smalley
Robert Smalley University of Memphis
Shfaqat Abbas Khan
Shfaqat Abbas Khan Technical University of Denmark
Terry Wilson
Terry Wilson The Ohio State University
John Wahr
John Wahr University of Colorado Boulder
Ian W. D. Dalziel
Ian W. D. Dalziel The University of Texas at Austin
Steven Businger
Steven Businger University of Hawaiʻi Sea Grant
Frederick W. Taylor
Frederick W. Taylor The University of Texas at Austin
Tonie van Dam
Tonie van Dam University of Utah
Kurt H. Kjær
Kurt H. Kjær University of Copenhagen
Christophe Vigny
Christophe Vigny École Normale Supérieure

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